Table 1.
The Predictors characteristics of under-five mortality in Rural Ethiopia (N = 4414).
| Variables Category | Frequency (%) | Child is alive |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | |||
| Region | Tigray | 370(8.4) | 9(2.4%) | 361(97.6%) |
| Afar | 546(12.4) | 31(5.7%) | 515(94.3%) | |
| Amhara | 456(10.3) | 22(4.8%) | 434(95.2%) | |
| Oromia | 632(14.3) | 39(6.2%) | 593(93.8%) | |
| Somali | 527(11.9) | 36(6.8%) | 491(93.2%) | |
| Benishangul | 461(10.4) | 42(9.1%) | 419(90.9%) | |
| SNNPR | 601(13.6) | 27(4.5%) | 574(95.5%) | |
| Gambela | 355(8.0) | 30(8.5%) | 325(91.5%) | |
| Harari | 243(5.5) | 14(5.8%) | 229(94.2%) | |
| Dire Dawa | 223(5.1) | 17(7.6%) | 206(92.4%) | |
| Age in 5-year groups | 15–19 | 248(5.6) | 23(9.3%) | 225(90.7%) |
| 20–24 | 858(19.4) | 59(6.9%) | 799(93.1%) | |
| 25–29 | 1405(31.8) | 69(4.9%) | 1336(95.1%) | |
| 30–34 | 934(21.2) | 48(5.1%) | 886(94.9%) | |
| 35–39 | 600(13.6) | 34(5.7%) | 566(94.3%) | |
| 40–44 | 276(6.3) | 15(5.4%) | 261(94.6%) | |
| 45–49 | 93(2.1) | 19(20.4%) | 74(79.6%) | |
| Highest educational level | No education | 2310(52.3) | 166(7.2%) | 2144(92.8%) |
| Primary | 1832(41.5) | 89(4.9%) | 1743(95.1%) | |
| Secondary | 198(4.5) | 9(4.5%) | 189(95.5%) | |
| Higher | 74(1.7) | 3(4.1%) | 71(95.9%) | |
| Current marital status | Never in union | 52(1.2) | 33(63.5%) | 19(36.5%) |
| Married | 4156(94.2) | 215(5.2%) | 3941(94.8%) | |
| Living with partner | 28(0.6) | 2(7.1%) | 26(92.9%) | |
| Widowed | 41(0.9) | 3(.3%) | 38(92.7%) | |
| Divorced | 95(2.2) | 13(13.7%) | 82(86.3%) | |
| No longer living together/separated | 42(1.0) | 1(2.4%) | 41(97.6%) | |
| Sex of child | Male | 2290(51.9) | 152(6.6%) | 2138(93.4%) |
| Female | 2124(48.1) | 115(5.4%) | 2009(94.6%) | |
| Currently breastfeeding | No | 1623(37.3) | 185(11.4%) | 1438(88.6%) |
| Yes | 2727(62.7) | 79(2.9%) | 2648(97.1%) | |
| Place of delivery | Respondent's home | 2583(58.5) | 169(6.5%) | 2414(93.5%) |
| Another home | 67(1.5) | 4(6.0%) | 63(94.0%) | |
| PUBLIC SECTOR | 1109(25.1) | 0(0.0%) | 0(0.0%) | |
| Government hospital | 333(7.5) | 32(9.6%) | 301(90.4%) | |
| Government health centre | 1109(25.1) | 42(3.8%) | 1067(96.2%) | |
| Government health post | 203(4.6) | 12(5.9%) | 191(94.1%) | |
| Other | 68(1.5) | 8(11.8%) | 60(88.2%) | |
| Wealth Index | Poorest | 2172(43.5) | 102(4.8%) | 2038(95.2%) |
| Poorer | 849(17) | 56(6.6%) | 793(93.4%) | |
| Middle | 671(13.4) | 35(5.2%) | 636(94.8%) | |
| Richer | 526(10.5) | 31(5.9%) | 495(94.1%) | |
| Richest | 196(3.9) | 11(5.6%) | 185(94.4%) | |